General CommentJust read I'm Your Man, a wonderful biography of Leonard Cohen, and it got me thinking about this gem of a song. I think, to respectfully disagree with Winters, that Cohen always felt himself an outsider, given his Jewish, English-speaking upbringing in predominantly French Montreal/Quebec. I think he chose this lyric, in French, as a way of expressing many complicated feelings he had about his homeland, from affection to alienation, and perhaps much in between the two.